Pregnant women have been among the 29 people in Virginia who have died of H1N1 swine flu, but health officials will not say how many. “We do know...

A Richmond man’s death is the latest in Virginia from swine flu, bringing total deaths in the state from the illness to 27. “It indicates that...

Workers afraid of layoffs didn’t rush to doctors’ offices this year to use their health-insurance benefits as some had predicted, according...

Just 12 days remain until a new Virginia law restricting smoking in restaurants goes into effect. Starting Dec. 1, smoking will be prohibited in restaurants,...

Using today’s Great American Smokeout campaign as a kickoff point, Henrico Doctors’ and Bon Secours Richmond hospitals are becoming tobacco-free...

The “new urbanism” style of development that Bon Secours Richmond Health System envisions for its St. Francis Medical Center in Chesterfield...

Less than a month after buying Wyeth, drug giant Pfizer Inc. has mapped out a new structure for its research and development operations. The plan, announced...

People might go on rampages for reasons other than mental illness, experts say. “People can be very angry, for example, and do bad things,“...

Richmond biopharmaceutical company Insmed Inc. today reported that losses for the quarter ending Sept. 30 were $150,000, compared with a loss of $2.2 million...

Flulike illness in the state appeared to decline last week, but deaths caused by the H1N1 flu continue to rise. As of yesterday, 21 deaths across Virginia...

Judy Turner, Robert Terry and the others walking in to notes of “Pomp and Circumstance” were not your typical graduates—some were a little...

INDIANAPOLIS—Managed care company Cigna Corp. says its third-quarter profit soared 92 percent, as improving equity markets spurred a big turnaround...

Hundreds turned out yesterday in Chesterfield County for a flu-vaccine clinic, where 800 doses of H1N1 vaccine were administered.

If you can imagine St. Mary’s Hospital with a more campuslike setting, perhaps a walking trail meandering through landscaped areas with a coffee...

NEW YORK—Johnson & Johnson says it will trim layers of management and set other restructuring moves to save up to $900 million next year. The...

Local health districts are getting more H1N1 swine-flu vaccine, and the state Health Department expects to get an additional 6,000 treatment courses of...

Pediatrics practices are being swamped with caring for sick children, trying to get shipments of H1N1 vaccine to give to patients, and answering parent...

Getting an H1N1 flu shot probably won’t cost you anything if you are insured through major health plans. Insurers UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna...

Increase the number of shifts. This will reduce the number of people working in the office at one time.   Limit meetings. If there is no need to gather...

A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition-labeling program after federal regulators said such systems may be misleading consumers,...

Even in a recession, demand for surgical supplies continues to grow. And so AVID Medical keeps growing. The James City County-based company, which recently...

Cigarette maker Philip Morris USA might have to pay for chest scans so longtime smokers can get early warnings of lung cancer, the highest court in Massachusetts...

Area emergency rooms are seeing an increase in patients with flu symptoms as the swine flu continues to cause unprecedented levels of illness nationally...

The day room in the Riverside PACE program in Richmond is a hub of activity—card games at one table, an exercise class in another area and, later,...

About 95,500 more Virginians have lost both their jobs and their health insurance this year, according to Families USA, a nonprofit organization pushing...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—Health care giant Johnson & Johnson pulls out a 1 percent increase in third-quarter profit and beats Wall Street expectations,...

About half of the millions of dollars in fees that will pay for the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of tobacco products will come from...

Abbott Laboratories on Monday said it would pay $6.6 billion for the pharmaceutical business of Belgian chemicals maker Solvay in a move to further expand...